A daily papercrafting blog which features my handmade cards showcasing Creative Expression's products including my own line of cutting dies and embossing folders, Cosmic Shimmer, Ranger, Spellbinders and more which use various techniques and ideas to hopefully inspire the creativity in you.

Saturday, 24 April 2010

Dive Right In!

I have been asked to do another Create and Craft show next week. The theme for this show is the new underwater life stamp plates designed by Sam Poole. There are three new plates full of fun underwater themed stamps. They are called Mermaid and Friends, Sea Life and Dive Right In! I've been having a bit of a fun today with them, getting samples made for the show and just playing around with some new techniques and ideas. Whenever you are working with anything that involves an underwater theme, there is so much you can do in the way of different card ideas. I immediately thought of water cards for one and then using real seashells and sand as embellishments. The card above has a real sand base to it (not sure if you can tell from my pic though). Acetate gives you so many options too. I've made a dozen or so cards for the show already and I still have lots of ideas that I haven't even gotten around to doing yet! So many ideas, so little time!

How about a little game? There is a little prize for the first person to leave a comment that can tell me what is unusual about the card above? Hint: There is something that you are looking at that isn't what it appears to be and you must identify what it is?

The show is scheduled for Thursday the 29th at 11am. I'll try to put a few samples on my blog between now and then, but I will be saving most of them for the show so you'll have to watch! All for now, Sue x

Great card - and I think everyone has had amazing suggestions - the jellyfish is a great use of a stamp and the real shells and sand. One layer of the sand looks like toast to me - well useful I suppose if you get hungry in the middle of the show but cookies would be better - lol.Love the card. You do amazing stuff.ann xxx

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